E. Lefebvre

11.5k citations

71 papers · 5.5k · 4 hit papers · h-index 30

Impact in

Nuclear and High Energy Physics top 0.2%
- Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics
- Magnetic confinement fusion research
Mechanics of Materials top 0.1%
- Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma

Papers in

Nuclear and High Energy Physics 67
- Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics 67
- Magnetic confinement fusion research 3
Mechanics of Materials 52
- Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma 52

Co-authors: V. Malka (23 shared papers)A. Rousse (6 shared papers)J. Fauré (8 shared papers)F. Burgy (6 shared papers)Y. Glinec (2 shared papers)A. Pukhov (1 shared paper)S. I. Kiselev (1 shared paper)S. N. Gordienko (1 shared paper)
Journals: Physics of Plasmas (21 papers)Physical Review Letters (9 papers)New Journal of Physics (6 papers)Laser and Particle Beams (4 papers)Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion (3 papers)
Partner nations: France United States Germany

In The Last Decade

E. Lefebvre

70 papers receiving 5.3k citations

E. Lefebvre's Hit Papers

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Femtosecond x rays from laser-plasma accelerators 2013 · 542 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2013 Reviews of Modern Physics
2005 Nature Physics
2004 Nature
2002 Science

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1	A laser–plasma accelerator producing monoenergetic electron beams Nature ·J. Fauré, Y. Glinec, A. Pukhov, S. I. Kiselev, S. N. Gordienko, E. Lefebvre, A. Rousse, F. Burgy, V. Malka Hit paper breakdown →	2004	1517
2	Laser-driven proton scaling laws and new paths towards energy increase Nature Physics ·J. Fuchs, P. Antici, E. d’Humières, E. Lefebvre, M. Borghesi, E. Brambrink, C. A. Cecchetti, Malte C. Kaluza, V. Malka, M. Manclossi, S. Meyroneinc, P. Mora, J. Schreiber, T. Toncian, H. Pépin, P. Audebert Hit paper breakdown →	2005	564
3	Femtosecond x rays from laser-plasma accelerators Reviews of Modern Physics ·S. Corde, K. Ta Phuoc, G. Lambert, Romuald Fitour, V. Malka, A. Rousse, A. Beck, E. Lefebvre Hit paper breakdown →	2013	542
4	Electron Acceleration by a Wake Field Forced by an Intense Ultrashort Laser Pulse Science ·V. Malka, S. Fritzler, E. Lefebvre, M. M. Aléonard, F. Burgy, J.-P. Chambaret, J. F. Chemin, K. Krushelnick, G. Malka, S. P. D. Mangles, Z. Najmudin, M. Pittman, A. Rousse, J. N. Scheurer, B. Walton, A. E. Dangor Hit paper breakdown →	2002	467
5	Experimental Observation of Electrons Accelerated in Vacuum to Relativistic Energies by a High-Intensity Laser Physical Review Letters ·G. Malka, E. Lefebvre, J.L. Miquel	1997	268
6	High-Resolutionγ-Ray Radiography Produced by a Laser-Plasma Driven Electron Source Physical Review Letters ·Y. Glinec, J. Fauré, L. Le Dain, S. Darbon, Tomonao Hosokai, J. J. Santos, E. Lefebvre, J. Rousseau, F. Burgy, Brigitte Mercier, V. Malka	2005	180
7	Particle-in-Cell modelling of laser–plasma interaction using Fourier decomposition Journal of Computational Physics ·A. Lifschitz, X. Davoine, E. Lefebvre, J. Fauré, C. Rechatin, V. Malka	2008	155
8	Proton beams generated with high-intensity lasers: Applications to medical isotope production Applied Physics Letters ·S. Fritzler, V. Malka, G. Grillon, A. Rousse, F. Burgy, E. Lefebvre, E. d’Humières, P. McKenna, K. W. D. Ledingham	2003	146
9	Emittance Measurements of a Laser-Wakefield-Accelerated Electron Beam Physical Review Letters ·S. Fritzler, E. Lefebvre, V. Malka, F. Burgy, A. E. Dangor, K. Krushelnick, S. P. D. Mangles, Z. Najmudin, A. Rousse, B. Walton	2004	83
10	Exact Relativistic Kinetic Theory of an Electron-Beam–Plasma System: Hierarchy of the Competing Modes in the System-Parameter Space Physical Review Letters ·Antoine Bret, L. Grémillet, Didier Bénisti, E. Lefebvre	2008	81
11	Electron self-injection into an evolving plasma bubble: Quasi-monoenergetic laser-plasma acceleration in the blowout regime Physics of Plasmas ·S. Kalmykov, A. Beck, S. A. Yi, Vladimir Khudik, M. C. Downer, E. Lefebvre, B. A. Shadwick, D. Umstadter	2011	80
12	Cold Optical Injection Producing Monoenergetic, Multi-GeV Electron Bunches Physical Review Letters ·X. Davoine, E. Lefebvre, C. Rechatin, J. Fauré, V. Malka	2009	70
13	Improved modeling of relativistic collisions and collisional ionization in particle-in-cell codes Physics of Plasmas ·F. Pérez, L. Grémillet, A. Decoster, M. Drouin, E. Lefebvre	2012	70
14	Energetic protons generated by ultrahigh contrast laser pulses interacting with ultrathin targets Physics of Plasmas ·P. Antici, J. Fuchs, E. d’Humières, E. Lefebvre, M. Borghesi, E. Brambrink, C. A. Cecchetti, Ségolène Gaillard, L. Romagnani, Y. Sentoku, T. Toncian, O. Willi, P. Audebert, H. Pépin	2007	69
15	Effect of plasma density scale length on the properties of bremsstrahlung x-ray sources created by picosecond laser pulses Physics of Plasmas ·C. Courtois, A. Compant La Fontaine, O. Landoas, G. Lidove, V. Méot, P. Morel, R. Nuter, E. Lefebvre, A. Boscheron, Jason R. Grenier, M. M. Aléonard, M. Gerbaux, F. Gobet, F. Hannachi, G. Malka, J. N. Scheurer, M. Tarisien	2009	55
16	Laser plasma acceleration with a negatively chirped pulse: all-optical control over dark current in the blowout regime New Journal of Physics ·S. Kalmykov, A. Beck, X. Davoine, E. Lefebvre, B. A. Shadwick	2012	50
17	Field ionization model implemented in Particle In Cell code and applied to laser-accelerated carbon ions Physics of Plasmas ·R. Nuter, L. Grémillet, E. Lefebvre, A. Lévy, T. Ceccotti, Philip Martin	2011	49
18	Laser-driven accelerators by colliding pulses injection: A review of simulation and experimental results Physics of Plasmas ·V. Malka, J. Fauré, C. Rechatin, A. Ben‐Ismaïl, J. K. Lim, Xavier Davoine, E. Lefebvre	2009	47
19	Neutron emission from a deuterated solid target irradiated by an ultraintense laser pulse Physics of Plasmas ·Catherine Toupin, E. Lefebvre, G. Bonnaud	2001	46
20	Stochastic heating in ultra high intensity laser-plasma interaction Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena ·A. Bourdier, D. Patin, E. Lefebvre	2005	43

About E. Lefebvre

E. Lefebvre is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Mechanics of Materials, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Geophysics and Radiation, having authored 71 papers that have together received 5.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics (67 papers), Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma (52 papers), Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (38 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (21 papers), Dust and Plasma Wave Phenomena (4 papers), Atomic and Molecular Physics (3 papers), Quantum chaos and dynamical systems (3 papers) and Magnetic confinement fusion research (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Nuclear and High Energy Physics (5.1k citations), Mechanics of Materials (3.0k citations), Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (3.2k citations), Radiation (851 citations) and Geophysics (1.2k citations). E. Lefebvre has collaborated with scholars based in France, United States and Germany. Frequent co-authors include V. Malka, A. Rousse, J. Fauré, F. Burgy, Y. Glinec, A. Pukhov, S. I. Kiselev, S. N. Gordienko, G. Malka and A. Beck. Their work appears in journals such as Physics of Plasmas, Physical Review Letters, New Journal of Physics, Laser and Particle Beams and Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion.

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